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Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service Smokejumpers are conducting training jumps in Interior Alaska skies in preparation for the upcoming fire season. The required refresher and training jumps ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – A Bureau of Land Management smokejumper has died in a parachuting accident while training, officials at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said. Authorities say ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — A smokejumper for Custer Gallatin National Forest was injured during a training exercise when strong winds from an incoming thunderstorm blew a smokejumper off course. This ...

BOISE, Idaho • Their hands were clean. Months from now, they would be covered in ash, their white fingernails contrasted by burnt earth ground into their fingers. By August, the only memory of today’s ...

REDDING -- Each spring, everyone who's anyone in the world of aerial firefighting converges on an open field just outside Redding, California, for one of the biggest drills of the year. The event, ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KATU) — It’s not hard to compare the nation’s smokejumpers to elite U.S. special forces, like the Navy’s SEALs. Smokejumpers are specialized wildland firefighters, but instead of being ...

WINTHROP, Okanogan County — Somewhere deep in the North Cascades, lightning strikes a parched mountainside, igniting a wildfire. Someone spots the blaze and calls emergency services. The tip gets ...

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — There’s a reason Randy Foland made it look easy as he steered his orange and purple parachute into a small clearing in a black spruce forest. He’s been here before. Like the ...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A veteran smokejumper for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has died after parachuting from a plane during a training exercise in Idaho, the first such accident in 13 years, ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Fifteen-year U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighter Ben Elkind is at his home in Redmond, recovering from a parachute training accident. It's a situation he knew was possible ...